[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Indian Epigraphy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965) › c16.s2.55 # Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.55 Indian Epigraphy c16.s2.55 - **Language:** English ### [c16.s2.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.55) ⁴ The Kadamba king of the Malavalli inscription also calls himself \*Dharma-Mahārājādhirāja\* while the same title was assumed by Gaṅga Nītimārga Koṅgunivarma-Permanaḍi and his successors (cf. \*Bomb. Gaz.\*, Vol. I, Part ii, p. 303, note 3; p. 288, note 5). The title \*Dharma-Mahārāja\* is supposed to mean ‘a \*Mahārāja\* who, at the particular time of the record, was engaged in an act of religious merit’. The word \*dharma\* was sometimes affixed to the royal title by several kings of both North and South India. See \*Select Inscriptions\*, pp. 96, 211, 407, 437, 456. For its penetration into the land beyond the Bay of Bengal, see ibid., p. 473. Sometimes a crown-prince was called \*Dharma-Yuvamahārāja\* in South India (\*Suc. Sāt. L. Dec.\*, p. 207). We have also \*Mahāvarāja\* for \*Yuvamahārāja\* (\*Ep. Ind.\*, Vol. XXXII, p. 202, note 1). - [Previous: c16.s2.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.54) - [Next: c16.s2.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.56) - [Up: c16.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s2.55) · Pramāṇa